Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Humberto Gómez Landero
Also Directed by Humberto Gómez Landero
If you survive the first half with his delicious absurdity, your reward is the second half, on the scenes when he teams up with his "carnal" Marcelo singing American, Cuban and Argentinian music, but ending with a very Mexican serenade. If you ever saw Jorge Negrete singing in a movie you'll laugh to tears when Tin Tan sings. And with the lighting effects, you can see actual flashes of Jorge Negrete until you hear him singing.
Stage-struck pachuco runs away from home in search of stardom.
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...
Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.